(020) Twentieth Report [>>Video] lol 4thwall-baiting

[zerosuitjill]

[Jill's standing in her small kitchen at the counter, stirring a steaming mug with one hand as the other switches on the tablet, propped up against the microwave.]I think someone else already said it, but this time of year really makes you stop and think about how long you've actually been here. Then again, the holidays make you do a lot of

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[albert__wesker]

Good tidings? [Now here's a familiar face. Nothing like old friends on the other end of the line for the holidays.] Jill, now. You know that you bring disaster wherever you go.

1/?

[zerosuitjill]

[for half an instant, she freezes. Completely. Enough that the cup slips from her startled fingers--]

2/?

[zerosuitjill]

[--but in the next half of an instant she reacts, quick enough to backstep and dodge the mug as it shatters on the tile as she looks at the tablet--]

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[zerosuitjill]

[And goes still again, but now with tension rather than surprise.]

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[zerosuitjill]

[Video] DONE

[zerosuitjill]

[...]

...I guess it was too much to hope you'd stay dead, after all.

[stiff voice what stiff voice.]

[Video] HA ilu

[albert__wesker]

Dead? [His smile is hardly dented by her words, no, her reaction was far too wonderful for much to impress on his mood at the moment.] No, no. But you. Looking... healthy.

[Video] <333

[zerosuitjill]

You mean free. Human.

[She glances down, mostly to move her eyes from his smug face as she starts nudging the broken bits of the mug together with her boot.] I do consider that healthy, so you're right about that.

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[albert__wesker]

Freedom is overrated-- so many people do nothing at all with it. As far as being human... [The word is said as if it were dirt in his mouth. Wesker snorts.] I made you better than human. I gave you a gift, Jill.

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[zerosuitjill]

[Her jaw sets tightly; there's a crunch somewhere on the floor before her head whips up, her bright eyes blazing.]

A gift. [There's so much disbelief and bitterness in that one word--]

And at what point should I have thanked you, Wesker? When I stood beside you while you prepared to poison the world? When you made me hurt Chris? Or maybe when you drilled that machine into my chest?

[She doesn't care that the feed's remaining public -- if anything, it's intentional. Let the community see what monster they'll soon be putting up with.]

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[albert__wesker]

[And Wesker doesn't know better. If he'd seen this place before, the lack of sun, the high, confining walls, he doesn't remember.] Semantics, Jill. I was-- am-- helping the world. Chris was trying to prevent that. As for the machine...

Have you retained anything, Jill? I'm curious.

[Video] :D

[satangotmylungs]

[Yeah, John's already had enough. And he knows Wesker, though he rather wishes he didn't. Still, it's how he and Jill got to...whatever they are now.]

Now's a good time for you to shut the fuck up, Blondie.

[Video] lollllll

[zerosuitjill]

[She exchanges snarling back at Wesker for giving another startled look.]

...I've got this, John.

[It's not... said as an order as much as it is a not-so-subtle hint of don't do this don't get involved for God's sake he's a level above everyone else here don't]

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[satangotmylungs]

I'm sure you do, but he's still being an asshole and you don't have to deal with his shit.

[He's figured that much by now, thanks.]

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[zerosuitjill]

...I know. But the more you try to ignore him, the worse he gets. Trust me. [Although she has the sinking feeling he'll find her soon enough either way.]

[video] depsite popular belief, life didn't eat me.

[albert__wesker]

[Wesker is so far into ignoring John that this post doesn't even reply to him. There was a brief flash of irritation for "Blondie" and then... nothing.

Wesker addresses Jill directly.] Sometimes I almost miss Chris' ability to follow orders. Don't you, Jill?